8. Before The Ice Is In The Pools by Emily Dickinson

 


Before The Ice Is In The Pools

Emily Dickinson


Before the ice is in the pools—

Before the skaters go,

Or any check at nightfall

Is tarnished by the snow—

Before the fields have finished,

Before the Christmas tree,

Wonder upon wonder

Will arrive to me!

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